Re: [Erw-devel] MS IE vs. Mozilla - UTF?

[erw-devel]

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 07:52, address@hidden wrote:

> I'll see what I can do about un-munging stuff from IE -- til then, 
> Mozilla's the chosen browser for our campus. =)

OK, I got now a clearer picture. escape() is specified in the ECMA only
for ISO Latin 1 characters.

Mozilla's escape() is extended to Unicode characters following W3C's
recommendation on URI encoding: first translate to UTF-8 and then %-code
each byte. Note however that this is done only if beyond-Latin-1
characters are met, so it is not really a good idea. IE's escape(),
instead, translates Unicode characters to %uXXXX, an even worse idea.

The solution is to use escape() or encodeURIComponent() (it's JS 1.5)
depending on the UTF-8-ness of the system. I did not know about
encodeURIComponent--my fault. It is already fixed in my version.

If you want a fast fix to use filters, just replace escape() in
buildQuery() in formjs.php with encodeURIComponent().

Ciao,

                                seba